Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years I have had as my constant companion a faithful and pious friend, one Oscar Optimesque, who used to sit on the platform while I pointed him out as an example of the ravages of alcohol. Unfortunately, during the past summer, poor Oscar passed to his doom. I wonder if you could help me find some Harvard student to accompany me on my spring tour to replace poor Oscar, as I have heard on good information that Harvard students are possessed with the devil of drink. Hopefully yours, Rev. Jonah M. Wilde...
Like many another State, Virginia requires its public schools to teach the harmful effects of alcohol. But two years ago the State General Assembly went further, commissioned University of Virginia's Dr. James Alexander Waddell and Medical College of Virginia's Dr. Harvey Bernhardt Haag to prepare a scientific treatise on alcohol's effects. Two months ago Drs. Waddell & Haag submitted their report to the State Board of Education, which warmly endorsed the work, sent it to the General Assembly for approval as a textbook. In no time at all the Woman's Christian Temperance Union...
...book, Alcohol in Moderation and Excess, said that abuse of alcohol led to all kinds of social, moral and physical ills, warned that moderate drinking might lead to excessive drinking. But Authors Waddell & Haag were constrained to add that modern scientific thought held the moderate use of alcohol "does not shorten the life span and probably plays no important part in the perpetration of lawlessness," that, indeed, it helped digestion, gave bibbers a "lift," produced "a feeling of self-satisfaction and physical well-being...
...Martha N. Brookings, legislative representative of the W. C. T. U., cried in horror: "The book does not refer to alcohol as a poison." Senator Charles T. Moses snapped: "Certain scientific facts may be misleading and damaging to young minds." Senator Vivian Page shrilled: "We should teach the children that their first drink will be their worst." Thereupon the Senators unanimously banned the book from Virginia's schools. Last week, in a final effort to exorcise rum from Virginia, they ordered that copies of the book, printed as a Senate document, be destroyed. To the authors they hastily returned...
...quiet town of Fécamp, France, some 25 miles northeast of Le Havre, the Benedictine monks for centuries had a monastery. In 1510 one of the monks, Dom Bernardo Vincelli, discovered that a magnificent cordial could be made by mixing certain herbs with honey, sugar and alcohol. Named "Elixir," the beverage lured King Francis I to Fécamp in 1534 to drink it, was a European favorite by the time of the French Revolution. Then the Benedictine monastery at Fécamp was destroyed, the monks dispersed, the secret of Elixir apparently lost forever. In 1863, however, Monsieur...